Fountain

The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.

- Albert Einstein

Science and spirituality, or scientific spirituality perhaps; that’s been my mood for what you could call an extended weekend.

After watching four back-to-back movies on Saturday, all starring Hugh Jackman, I’m still reeling from his their effect. It started with X-men, then X 2, and X 3. I was fine until then. ‘Cos until then I was only watching a science fiction. Then came, The Fountain! I’m not even sure if I can explain that movie in just a few words.

Spanning over a 1000 years with three tales running in parallel, the story transports you from the age of Spain in bondage in the 1500’s through the present day, to the 2500’s, in an inexplicably unimaginable way. One man’s journey through time and space (literally space), Hugh Jackman acts in the lead role in all three stories.

In pursuit of love, life, Tom Creo (Hugh Jackman) experiences frustration, pain, suffering, loss, death, re-birth and finally immortality. All three stories get inter-woven toward the end of the screenplay leaving you practically disoriented. At least I was! Well you would be too, if you saw Jackman as a faithful solider trying to free his Queen by fetching the tree of life and delivering Spain from bondage in scene one; in the very next scene, you find him in a state-of-the-art research facility trying to get a medical breakthrough in a drug that would cure his dying wife of cancer, and in the subsequent scene, he’s in a bubble in outer space with a lone dying tree, trying to give life back to it from a nebula somewhere in the 26th century (three different people from different eras of course). See what I’m saying?

Although I didn’t understand much of concept behind the movie itself, I did impulsively put it under my favorite movies list :) Maybe someday I’ll get what he’s saying.

It might sound like a thin plot, but the movie is a little heavy on its viewers, so if you’re the kind that lets the waterworks run on every emotional scene; you should stay away from it. But if you do succeed in understanding the underlying plot of the story, do let me know, because I’m still trying to find an explanation!

Anyway, Sunday was good for me. Watched Pirates of the Caribbean – At World’s End. I heard mixed reviews about the movie before I watched it, maybe because they compared it with the older parts. But I haven’t seen the earlier parts, so I liked it all the same. For what its worth, there was butter popcorn, a soft drink, and Orlando Bloom in front of me. :-D. Sailed the high seas with him for three hours(?) got sea sick [cheesy smile] and had to bunk work on Monday! :)

A roller-coaster weekend you could say! Have a great work week ahead and hugs!